Only thing I disagree with is the Aleks Meteor bit. Tank builds can take the meteor no problem but Aleks can easily shotgun you with his “AoE PRM boomerang + teleport in your face attack”.
I agree Mad Queen is stronger than Alkamos/Shar Zul lol, the comparison just isn’t there.
I voted no because she has nothing “awesome” worth farming for.
My tanky FW Tact took 10k damage from Aleks’s meteor and that’s against 3,1k DA, 22% phys res, aura of censure, overcapped Aether res and 2,8k armor. Only character i have so far that can tank his meteor is my Blade Arc Witchblade and she has 50% physical res, 88% aether res with 50% over the cap, 2,8k armor and perma War Cry. Don’t really agree tank builds in general can take his meteor very well.
My retaliation build has well over 4k armor with 100% absorption and I honestly feel 2.8K isn’t enough for tanks.
Regardless. The meteor has inconsistent damage. Sometimes I take well over 7k damage and other times it looks like I’m only taking 3K damage though his boomerang PRM forces me to kite him. If I face tank him with this build he will shred 8K in an instant or one shot my character in some cases, it’s equal to having the meteor drop. Long story short, with 14K health, 1 meteor will not 1 shot my toon.
Can post a vid if you’d like but in the same vid I got killed by the meteor when I only had 5K health and it’s a long battle as I was using a retaliation build. You’ll see me eat 3 meteor’s without dropping after the first death.
I can vouch for meteor’s inconsistent damage, sometimes it deals like 2k damage to my FW Tact and others times the aformentioned 10k. Honestly never had major issue with his prm shotgun, had it remove a sizeable chunk of my health but nothing too major. I do add that i use Runeguard Greaves a lot and their proc helps mitigating a lot of Aleks’s damage when it’s up.
Retal builds are pretty much the only build archetype that can reach 4k+ armor because they go full defense. 2,8k armor is pretty much considered an high armor rating for offensive builds.
“Well, Rashalga, you may have fallen a bit behind on the higher end of things now that we’ve released an endgame expansion in Ashes of Malmouth, but we just don’t feel like you deserve a buff just yet.” -Mad Queen’s performance review.
I do admit that i could choose my words better to not come off like an ass sometimes when disagree with people because it’s not my intent to sound confrontational and harsh.
But yeah, what Ceno said. Doubly grounded for flaming.
I voted yes just because I love having more challenging content. But along with a buff I’d like to see improvement in her MI. Creating a greater challenge and a better reward for the struggle.
none of the builds that are wrecking her in 6 seconds, are wrecking her like that until they are already min/maxed and fully geared… Fight her in ultimate at level 70-75 in self found gear and those builds will come no where near their output that they show in their post’s.
Is she as difficult as she once was? No
But neither are the first 4 acts (I mean theres no difficulty in the first 4 acts anymore). Hell In b29 trash mobs in ultimate would absolutely crit the fuck out of you (Lost more characters in Hardcore on that build then all the other builds ever released combined)
Exactly. She isn’t hard when you are min/maxed with certain builds. But I would reckon anyone running a gunslinger build (e.g purifier, wouldn’t have any trouble beating her on ultimate. It’s the melee characters that will struggle.